# تركی
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *terkü (“saddle strap”).

#### Noun

تركی • (terki)
* saddle straps, game straps, anything strapped to the back of a saddle to carry packages or dead games

##### Derived terms

* تركی باغی (terki bağı, “cloak-strap behind a saddle”)
* تركی هكبه‌سی (terki heybesi, “haversack”)
* تركی یری (terki yeri, “place behind a saddle”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: terki

#### References

* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “térgü”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 544
* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*terkü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “terki1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4755
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تركی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 153a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تركی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 364
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corrigiæ ephippii”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 292
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تركی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1159
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “terki”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تركی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 537

### Etymology 2

From ترك (türk, “Turk”) +‎ ـی (-î, nisba suffix).

#### Adjective

تركی • (türkî)
* Turkic, Turk, of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages

##### Derived terms

* تركیجه (türkice, “according to Turkic custom”)
* لسان تركی (lisan-ı türkî, “Turkic language”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: Türki

#### Proper noun

تركی • (türkî)
* Turkic, the large language family spoken by Turkic people
    جغتای تركیسی ― Cağatay Türkîsi ― Chaghatay Turkic
* Turk, a person or speaker of the various Turkic languages

##### Descendants

* Turkish: Türki

#### Noun

تركی • (türkî or türkü)
* folk song, a song, especially a Turkish one, originating among common people and handed down by oral tradition

##### Derived terms

* تركی باغلامق (türkü bağlamak, “to sing a song”)
* تركی سویلمك (türkü söylemek, “to sing a song”)
* تركی چاغرمق (türkü çağırmak, “to sing a song”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: türkü

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “türkü”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4947
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تركی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 153a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تركی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 364
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cantio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 144
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تركی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1160
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “türkü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تركی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 537